Disaster Management and Emergency Response   Tags: complex_emergencies, disaster_management, disaster_resilience, disasters, disasters, drla, fema, gulf_oil_spill, humanitarian_assistance, oil_spill, vulnerable_populations  

Version 4.4 of the Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders (WISER), a free system designed to assist first responders in hazardous material incidents

New Report from Trust for America's Health.

Relief Central is a free mobile and web resource from Unbound Medicine to assist relief workers and first responders.

1967 – current. Environmental biotechnology, engineering, pollution. (Some full-text)

- Characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources.
1967 – current - Some full-text

- All aspects of water resources.
1960 – current - Some full-text

1971-Current - Aquatic science, aquatic organisms, fisheries, oceanography

An on-line searchable database containing glossary information with multi-language terminology equivalence.

A joint project of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

American Chemical Society is the leading publisher of peer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences

Access the most important information about toxic substances and how they affect health from CDC. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

GIDEON Toxicology includes over 200 occupational diseases and 2,000 agents.

Nn occupational health database designed for health and safety professionals and for consumers seeking information about the health effects of exposure to chemicals and biologicals at work.

Searchable bibliography that includes abstracts of more than 1,600 key articles cited in the 2004 Surgeon General's Report: The Health Consequences of Smoking.

Information from a variety of publicly available sources including brand-specific labels and Material Safety Data Sheets when available from manufacturers and manufacturers' web sites.

EBSCOhost: Covers information on virtually every dimension of security & counter-terrorism and is designed to inform the analysis process, as well as to enhance the general understanding of security and terrorism-related issues.

Search multiple databases in ProQuest.

ProQuest. International research on all aspects of biochemical, medical, and microbial technology as applied to bioengineering, medicine, agriculture and environmental science.

Covers: Biology of bones and teeth, ubiquitous role of ionic calcium.

A compendium of data extracted from the open scientific literature.

NLM - Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.

A news service that tells the story of disaster response and suggests appropriate ways the public can help survivors. It also facilitates information sharing among disaster responders.

Quick Links for your phone or tablet

Matas Mobile View for Tulane users

Disaster types & topics, disaster literature

Free civil engineering database providing access to over 170,000 bibliographic records of all American Society of Civil Engineers publications

A business research tool that provides full text which spans a spectrum of management research.

A collection of resources in in the applied science and engineering fields.

OCLC. Covers: bibliographic references to important journals in the fields of physical and human geography, geology, mineralogy, ecology and development studies.

ProQuest. Covers: Health, safety & industrial hygiene

EBSCOhost: Covers information on virtually every dimension of security & counter-terrorism and is designed to inform the analysis process, as well as to enhance the general understanding of security and terrorism-related issues.

ProQuest. Covers: Human population dynamics, control, and effect on natural resource management.

ProQuest. Covers: Political Science, Government and Public Policy, Politics, international relations

ProQuest. Covers: Engineering, Technological risks, biological risks, natural hazards

Evidence based medicine, full-text systematic reviews and meta-analysis from the Cochrane Collaboration.

EMBASE.com is an abstract and indexing database specialized in the biomedical field, and excels in its coverage of pharmaceutical research, with power searching tools enabling researchers to retrieve essential information.

Global Health, Health Star, Full text journals and MEDLINE.

MEDLINE – (Ovid SP): MeSH headings and limits with subheading topic categories.

An additional recommended search interface for MEDLINE.
Search the Clinical Queries to quickly find systematic
reviews, etiology, diagnosis, therapy and prognosis. Icons link to Tulane subscriptions.

Tulane users will need to register. Tulane network access is required. This product was called: Corporate Solutions.

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Information on natural hazards.

Part of the National Weather Service.

Geographical Information Systems (GIS)

WHO. Effect of extreme weather events such as floods and droughts upon water and sanitation.

The 2010-2011 World Disaster Reduction Campaign “Making Cities Resilient” addresses issues of local governance and urban risk while drawing upon previous ISDR Campaigns on safer schools and hospitals, as well as on the sustainable urbanizations principles developed in the UN-Habitat World Urban Campaign 2009-2013.

A gateway to access reference materials including websites, databases, and networking platforms; as well as the latest books, institutional reports and bulletins.

UNISDR serves as the focal point for the implementation a ten year plan of action adopted in 2005 by 168 governments to protect lives and livelihoods against disas

The journal Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness has published an open-access supplement on nuclear preparedness:

Nuclear Detonation Scarce Resources Project Working Group can be accessed through the Radiation Emergency Medical Management (REMM) tool.

Tools for responders of mass-casualty incidents involving chemicals -National Library of Medicine.

This catalog is a major resource for identifying literature dealing with crisis management and natural hazards. It includes articles as well as books.

Disaster Psychiatry has an important role in emergency prevention, response and recovery. In times of disasters, the APA works to coordinate and disseminate valuable and timely disaster psychiatry materials to those in the field and to facilitate the flow of information into and out of our organization.

This free kit arms disaster recovery workers with mental health tools. Available for download or in print, it includes materials for responding effectively to the general public during and after a disaster and in dealing with workplace stress.

Coverage of the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, extensive coverage of books, and unparalleled access to reports from government and nongovernmental agencies.

Search the news (1980 - present), look up a legal case, get company info, research people

Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments.

The PILOTS bibliographic database, covering the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress, is produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in White River Junction, Vermont. Includes citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and offers both current and retrospective coverage.

The PsycARTICLES® database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. The database contains more than 25,000 searchable full text articles from 40 journals published by the APA and 9 from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 49 journals. Coverage spans from 1988 to the present.

A website that features DSM-IV-TR® and The American Journal of Psychiatry as the cornerstones of a collection of psychiatric references, including books, journals, and self-assessment tools.

Includes topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry, psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

This database contains more than one million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. It also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law. Journal coverage, which spans from 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 35 languages.

EBSCOhost. Coverage of the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, extensive coverage of books, and unparalleled access to reports from government and nongovernmental agencies.

Topical searching by groups of databases is avialable.

Coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.

CSA. Contains bibliographic citations with abstracts for journal articles and dissertations in all branches of the field of Sociology.

Statistics and economic and social data of OECD Nations.

World Development Indicators Online is a database of statistics from the World Bank’s Data Group. It provides high quality national and international statistics for users worldwide and lets users assess what governments do by accessing reliable data.

Provides statistical data from the Human Development Report (HDR)